A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in FFmpeg 2.0 (Multimedia Processing Software). Affected is the function vorbis_header of the file libavformat/oggparsevorbis.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. This is going to have an impact on availability.

The issue has been introduced in 07/11/2013. The weakness was disclosed 03/02/2014 by Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind with Google Security Team as avformat/oggparsevorbis: check packet size before reading new_len from it as confirmed git commit (GIT Repository). The advisory is available at git.videolan.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-125008. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 234 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.videolan.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (91655) and Secunia (SA57282†). The entries VDB-12583, VDB-12584, VDB-12586 and VDB-12588 are pretty similar.

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• Multimedia Processing Software

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• FFmpeg

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• 2.0

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• open-source

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